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fahlman said:

I support thousands of Windows computers and hundreds of macOS computers as my job. I would never use Windows personally. It's even a double-edged sword in the enterprise due to the manageability, but its a security nightmare.

I have worked in environments with many thousands of Windows and Mac computers.  The Windows admins have far more BS to deal with: driver packs, KBs and hotfixes, quality rollups, cumulative rollups, etc.  Patching is a major headache on Windows, especially with how I've seen it work in SCCM.  If you want an 'easy' solution, be prepared to pay a lot of money for a third party product, or else you're using something like Ninite for a small/medium office.  On the Mac, there are so many awesome developers who have created whole patching solutions FOR FREE and posted them on Github with excellent documentation.  Nudge is an example of one designed to encourage users to install their macOS updates in a timely manner.  Even a halfway competent admin with some scripting chops can make sense of most of the offerings and roll them out quickly, and the developers are motivated by Apple's mantra of making great user experiences.

silvergold84 said:

This is great idea! Its pure innovation by Apple: the chip itself do it for the kids! No third human eyes to review contents. They can ask help to review the image also to parents. Again one reason more to love Apple and their incredible technology!

90+ human rights groups and thousands of privacy and safety advocates believe otherwise. 

https://appleprivacyletter.com/

A feature like this can open the doors to abusive requests by hostile governments, compelling Apple to flag "inappropriate" content like political cartoons, memes critical of the regime, images promoting LGBT equality or other important social issues.  The "penalty" for non-compliance would be to have those devices banned for sale or for use at all within those countries.

Thank heavens.  Did they not receive a mountain of negative feedback from developers and AppleSeed testers over the summer?  I guess Apple needed a very clear reminder from the public that the Mac is not an iPhone.  How did that even get past UX testing and into a final release?  Someone had to be pushing very hard for its inclusion.

I wanted to compare these new shades to the Lutron Serena Smart Blinds, which has been pretty much the only game in town for ultra-wide blinds (over 48") or for homeowners who wanted to "graduate" from IKEA to something nicer.

For those of you who don't know, the IKEA Fyrtur smart blinds come in a handful of fixed widths from 60-120cm (23 5/8" ~ 47 1/4").  Each blind works independently with the items included in the package, but to integrate them with the big 3 smart home systems, you must use three components: the remote control, the signal repeater, and the Trådrfri gateway.  Only the Trådfri is a separate purchase.  The IKEA system uses ZigBee, and it's a bit of a chore to set up and pair for the first time.  Once it's paired, though, it's fine and dead reliable.  If you have to reset it, though, it's going to be a real test of your patience.

So I went to the Belgian pre-order site to price out some blinds for my nearly 8-foot wide living room window, with the following options:

• Essential White
• Rolgordijn (Single blind)
  
• In Het Venster (in the window)
• Width and height: 236 x 120 cm (approx 93" x 47")
• Transparantie: Verduisterend (opaque)
• Material color: white
• System type: Cassette (looks cleaner)
• System size: Klein (small).  The large is not needed unless you have really tall windows.
• System color: white
• Motor side: right

The final price as configured is 358.37 Euros, or a shade over $400.

Meanwhile, a comparably configured, battery-operated Lutron Serena shade costs anywhere from $800 - $1,200    depending on fabric and options.

These Eve Smart Blinds are going to fill the void between those who want to do better than IKEA, and homeowners who can't justify $1,000 per window on smart blinds.

davidmalcolm said:

Honestly the device side scanning was a privacy thing. They should just not encrypt iCloud photos and scan them for child porn of any kind like Facebook and Google already do. I’m tired of all these people acting like you deserve the right to privately rape kids. 

This is an example of at least two logical fallacies: false premise, and straw man.  Just because the technology is used to scan for child pornography does not mean that people arguing against it are in favor of child pornography.